Arabic edit

Root
س ف ح (s-f-ḥ)

Verb edit

سَفَحَ (safaḥa) I, non-past يَسْفَحُ‎ (yasfaḥu)

  1. to pour, to flow
  2. to spill, to shed
    Synonym: سَفَكَ (safaka)
    • c. 563, طرفة بن العبد, ديوان طرفة بن العبد شرح الأعلم الشنتمري:
      إِنِّي وَجَدِّكَ مَا هَجَوْتُكَ وَٱلْأَنْصَابُ يُسْفَحُ بَيْنَهُنَّ دَمُ
      ʔinnī wajaddika mā hajawtuka wal-ʔanṣābu yusfaḥu baynahunna damu
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    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 6:145:
      إِلَّا أَنْ يَكُونَ مَيْتَةً أَوْ دَمًا مَسْفُوحًا أَوْ لَحْمَ خِنْزِيرٍ
      ʔillā ʔan yakūna maytatan ʔaw daman masfūḥan ʔaw laḥma ḵinzīrin
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Conjugation edit

Noun edit

سَفْح (safḥm

  1. verbal noun of سَفَحَ (safaḥa) (form I)

Declension edit

Noun edit

سَفْح (safḥm (plural سُفُوح (sufūḥ) or أَسْفَاح (ʔasfāḥ))

  1. bottom
  2. foot (of a mountain)
    • a. 660 CE, Ali ibn Abi Talib, Nahj Al-Balaghah:
      فَإِذَا نَزَلْتُمْ بِعَدُوٍّ، أَوْ نَزَلَ بِكُمْ، فَلْيَكُنْ مُعَسْكَرُكُمْ فِي قُبُلِ الأَشْرَافِ، وَأَسْفَاحِ الجِبَالِ، وَأَثْنَاءِ الأَنْهَارِ
      faʔiḏā nazaltum biʕaduwwin, ʔaw nazala bikum, falyakun muʕaskarukum fī qubuli l-ʔašrāfi, waʔasfāḥi al-jibāli, waʔaṯnāʔi l-ʔanhāri
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Declension edit

References edit

  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سفح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[1], London: Williams & Norgate
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سفح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سفح”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[3] (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “سفح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “سفح”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN